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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kewjoe:
You're definitely safe. I gave my rooted JK4 for repair and they didn't blink an eye. You on a fresh JL2 are not rooted. Don't worry, get it repaired. They should give you a brand new phone. Good luck :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] construk1:
Quite lucky!

I'm very lucky!

It's my first try with smartphone and their heavy price.

I've got two (2) Vibrant that bricked for no reason one after the other.

The first after 1 week, the second after 3 weeks.

And since i'm full equiped with the charger with the stand and bought another battery... how can someone be happier ?! :confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hynsy11:
hey buddy i have a legal idea that will help you, email me at hynsy@live.com.au
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Auzy:
Umm, I don't think you understand at all. In most countries, it is illegal to hang onto stolen goods, especially if you know it's stolen (which he does). That puts him at risk..

Secondly, if anyone did help him change the IMEI (which is significantly more illegal, especially since he knows it's a stolen phone), it actually puts our own phones at risk of being unrecoverable, because crims can easily change the imei's on our phones.

Finally, pardon us if nobody here wants to be drawn into a criminal investigation potentially for helping someone with a phone which was stolen. You might think it's all a game, but I REALLY don't think you understand the full consequences of helping here. It's actually extremely serious. Especially when you consider that police will treat it as though you are assisting in a robbery!

Also, I'm not defending piracy, but there is no comparison here really. Especially since stats apparently show that most pirates don't seem to be rich enough to purchase many games/movies/music anyway. In fact, some companies such as Sony are actually stealing from smaller companies. Piracy isn't actually that clear cut. I don't support it, but just be aware that the companies which seem to be complaining the most about it, generally aren't the most ethical of companies...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JonCubed:
Hi I've just fixed my phone from the problem you've had. If the 3 button combo does not work then you'll need to make the usb jig that will get you into download mode. You can find instructions on how to build and use it in this thread.

You'll also need full firmware to flash I used JM8 from http://www.samfirmware.com/apps/auth...TECT-i9000.htm and you should find a CSC file that is relevant to your country. Once you have that follow the instruction on how to flash with odin and make sure you have re-partition option selected otherwise it will boot into a black screen and you'll have to reflash.

After this you can update to anyother custom rom or stock rom you like.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crysis21:
That's exactly what I did.

But i ****ed up my phone after reading in another threat that i should just repartition the phone with the PIT file, because my phone got FC on boot. It never managed to create partitions.

Now let's pray...

Best of luck with the JIG. It's a nice thing and it really works. But I was unlucky and i ****ed it....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shine.:
Made my week guys thanks for all the help!: ) this is the money part i guess -_- hahaa
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SkinBobUk:
For all we know the phone could of been lost by its owner, a new one got on the insurance and then the person found it and thought they would be clever and sell it on.

While I agree imei talk is risky and shouldn't be done as it will enable criminals to make even more money, its not like the police are seeming that interested, especially as they couldn't even be bothered to come pick up the phone from the op.

In my opinion if the op gets it working thru one means or another then where is the harm?

If he/she had actually gone out and deliberatly stolen the phone from a defenseless granny that would be a differant case.

As for being scared of being in posesion of stolen goods, well one there is no proof its stolen, and two i cant imagine the police will be bothered to stop scoffing donoughts just for the sake of one dodgy phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seraphon198666:
[Q] Fully bricked galaxy s

I have a fully bricked (as in won't turn on or show any form of life) galaxy s, so was wondering if anyone had found a fix for this yet as it's about to be thrown against the wall and get replaced by an iPhone!:mad::mad::mad::mad:

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
The hardware jig might help you. Search the forum to find it and other soltuions.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seraphon198666:
The hardware jig and the hair dryer method are both for semi-bricked galaxies not fully bricked.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xxgg:
what is a hair dryer method?

fully bricked? maybe you can sell it to me for $50 as a paper weight.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seraphon198666:
Wow it's almost like every word was actually no use.

Cleary you don't get the concept of helping and being useful!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Remove the battery, hold down the buttons/keys required to access download mode then insert the battery. I've encoutered this issue over a 100x with Odin 1.0 before and I've never bricked my SGS.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoubidou:
first off all if you 3 button to download worked before, you galaxy s is not bricked.

second you can not brick a galaxy s, except if you really damage it hardware wise.

take off the battery and wait for an half an hour before putting it back in.

then go into download mode. it should work.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seraphon198666:
Yeah my phone is completely unresponsive. It's fully bricked, not semi so this hasn't worked :*(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seraphon198666:
I've just put the battery in after taking it out at 2AM, it's now nearly 10 and it's still not working. it won't go into download mode at all.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoubidou:
did you wait for at least 30 minutes, even longer. because it has to discharge electrically all components.

I tell you if you had 3 button download mode your sgs is not bricked, it is impossible to brick it, except if you make one mistake.

when you flash it with ODIN, and you flash the bootloader. then your phone is definitevly bricked.

It happend to me, i took the battery of, and went out for some shopping. 2 hours later, i could again start it in download mode.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seraphon198666:
2AM to 10AM = 7 hours:p

The phone is completely unresponsive, there is nothing coming up on the screen, it's completely black. It's not being registered by any computer or odin.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoubidou:
what are you doing to put it into download mode?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seraphon198666:
pressing the volume down button, then the home (bottom middle on the front) button, then the power button.

This all happened when i flashed the v7.0.2 of darky's rom. i followed all the instructions and it all said it was fine, then when i hit reboot through the clockwork recovery mode it went black and has been dead ever since.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoubidou:
you have to continue pushing all 3 buttons for at least 15 to 30 seconds until the download screen appears.

I am not sure about the sequence, but i always begin with the home button, then volume down and the power. Also, try 5 or 6 times in a row. it happend including to me that after 5 or 6 trials it goes into download.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seraphon198666:
And was yours like mine (actually dead) or did it have anything showing on the screen at all?

Also is that 5-6 times with the battery in, or remove and replace the battery each subsequent time?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoubidou:
it was like dead. black screen.

retry i am sure after 5 or 6 times somebody talk about 10 times.

remove battery, put it back in. try to put it into download mode.

and this at least 5 to 6 times in a raw. no waiting in between.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seraphon198666:
Tried it 10 times in a row, stil nothing.

Think it's actually kaput....so i think i'm just gonna try and return it for something more reliable, like the iPhone 4

Thanks for the help though.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoubidou:
i have seen bricked iPhones, never a bricked SGS, you can still try the hairdryer solution.

if you search for it you will fnd it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seraphon198666:
Already tried the hair dryer method prior to posting.

And it looks like i may have the first ever fully bricked sgs then lol
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Insti75:
Darky's ROM

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=880859

I flashed this from here (Darky's 7.0.2) from Clockwork on my Telstra i9000t (same as captivate, correct?) and my phone is COMPLETELY dead like the OP's.

Download mode and recovery mode DID work before I flashed this ROM, I can vouch that I have accessed both modes on this handset previously.

I have tried the hair dryer trick.

I am about to head to an electronics shop to get some resistors and try the jig method...

The phone will not show any signs of life. I have tried almost every combination to try and convince it to at least power up but nothing so far.

Will the jig be able to start the phone? or is it completely kaput as well?

Deepest empathy to the OP.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gohst_oc:
You flashed a Darkky V7 ROM with ODIN?

Didn't you know that this is a Clock Work Mod image only (since V7 or so).

So you should not flash this with ODIN.

And you really keep the Volume Down + Home button pressed while you turn on your Galaxy S?

Keep them presse for 30 seconds after you pushed the power button.

And maybe you can use a JIG Cable to boot into recovery mode.

For the fact of the reliability: if you never touch a running system, it stays reliable.

What would change if you had an iPhone and want to jailbreak it?

If all methodes are not working, maybe it's helpful to try to understand where the flash procedure failed.

Because the Darkky Install Script plays around with partitions and filesystems.

Maybe he's able to help.

Post your experience in the Darkky's ROM thread.

Maybe the Dev's are able to help because they know what the update script is doing during the update procedure.

But I don't think that it plays around with the bootloader.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Insti75:
Exactly!

Exactly my situation.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martstarts:
My Galaxy S was Bricked as such tried everything , no response n one last ditch effort took battery out left it on a warm radiator not hot 4 2hours ,then i got a response n got a download mode ...worth a try
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Insti75:
Sorry to hijack the OPs thread, but I think we both used clockworkmod rec console to flash the ROM like recommended..

Will post in Darky's ROM thread.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seraphon198666:
i never flashed this via Odin.

As per my previous posts, i used clockwork manager to install it, it said it was all fine, then when i hit reboot it went all black, nothing, dead, kaput.

And as for reliability, i have jailbroken and brickcked my old iPhone many a time, but have always been able to restore it back to working condition. Whereas the sgs has been pretty crap since i bought it, what with software bugs and now this. Really not impressed by android or the sgs for that matter.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seraphon198666:
I tried the hairdryer method to no avail, but i'm all for the last ditch efforts. I'll post if it does work, if not then i won't.

But thanks regardless.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoongkw:
After doing those, do make sure battery is still charged.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seraphon198666:
Yeah tried asking darky for help, and in his thread, but nothing.

F**k darky and his sh**y ROM!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Crysis21:
Hey buddies

I have the same issue on a galaxy s, but not after flashing darky's rom. I own 2 SGS. One of them has 3-button combo active, but one of then doesn't. While I was trying to update the bootloader the phone bricked. I made a JIG and then i could get into download mode... i flashed a new firmware with odin but then the phone hanged on boot, at the S logo, because i was having the media scanner error: unable to mount stl11. After reading in another threat that i should only put the pit file in odin and hit start with repartition I finally managed to **** my phone... just like yours.... that ****ing BLACK screen... completely bricked.

Now I tried almost everything and nothing worked.

Best of luck!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Have you got a another battery fully charged to try? Remember the battery does not charge without the firmware.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gohst_oc:
Whooowoo cool down guys before posting things that you may regret.

You are the unlucky 0.0001% of all Darkky ROM users.

It would be much more helpful if you post something constructive.

For example where it did crash and if the battery was charged and the phone was plugged in the power supply and so on.

That could help to see where the error could have happened.

Because a full brick should not be possible because (as said already) Darkkys ROM shouldn't touch the bootloader.

So be patient, maybe you can rescue your Galaxy S, better than having a 500$ paper weight.

If you want to buy an iPhone an live with that limited crap (yes I know tons of peoples who switched from iOS to Android - still lucky), no problem I think you are living in a free country.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dyallo:
"**** Dark and his ****ty ROM?"

**** you, no-one is to blame but you.

You were warned before installing this ROM and it totally works for me and about 99,9% of the rest of us.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gohst_oc:
Ahh second question, after you installed ROM Manager from the market (I think you did it this way), did you boot in Clock Work Mod Recovery (as known by holding Volume Up + Home + Power on) and THEN flashing in Clock Work Mod Recovery the Darkky ROM or while running ROM Manager in Android OS?

I would always flash in Clock Work Recovery menu, not inside running Android OS (because this is ****t).
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seraphon198666:
Battery was at approx 65% before the **** up so it should in theory still be charged.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Insti75:
OK so this is what happened.

Hello, I understand by flashing ROMs you are to expect this kind of thing to happen, that's cool. I still love my dead Galaxy S. I am still to try these methods to get into Download Mode:

-A fresh, 100% battery

-Home made USB jig

The 3 button rec and download mode has functioned on my phone with the previous Telstra ROM.

My steps were as follows:

> Backed up my current ROM with ROM Manager

> Rebooted into Clockworkmod from the ROM Manager app function.

> Searched through for the ZIP file of Darky's most recent release found here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=880859

Downloaded from the mediafire link:

ROM: http://www.mediafire.com/?xoydrtv17mw3r9b

> Everything flashed correctly, I watched the entire process and there were no errors in unpacking.

> Phone ended up back at Clockworkmod after flashing.

> I hit the reboot phone function.

> Then suddenly! Black screen. Nothing more, nothing less.

I hope this helps Darky look into this.

Any other tips would be greatly appreciated.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yoongkw:
i have 2 extra spare battery with external charger (oem)

http://www.spider-foot.com/oem/big/GSi90-2B-E_1.jpg
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gohst_oc:
@Insti75:

Ok you did:

Post helpful things [x]

Flash the correct way [x]

Describe what exact type of Galaxy phone you have [x]

Why are the others not able to do so?

By the way, one info might be helpfu

l:

Did you do any wipes before?

Because it's always good to wipe cache partition an dalvik cache before flashing.

If you were coming from any Android 2.1 version (what I think was the case) you should really do a full factory reset / data wipe (and save alle your data first xD ).

And very important but maybe stupid question:

Is the telstra Galaxy a Galaxy S I9000 or a Captivate?

Because the ROM you used is from the Captivate forum...

If you use a Galaxy S I9000 use this from the very original thread in the dev. forum:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=814091

Because Captivate, Vibrant and Galaxy S I9000 can't use the same firmware.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Auzy:
Wtf. You do realise it's christmas right, he is probably busy. Secondly I'm betting there was a warning on the ROM..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Insti75:
The Telstra release from my understanding is the international UMTS850 (NextG) i9000t model. Which I am told is the same as the international i9000t/Captivate. I used the Captivate ROM with this in mind.

I did not wipe from my factory Telstra ROM, it only had root and no lagfixes installed.

I am trying a friends battery tomorrow night from his i9000 to see if I can get mine to even light up.

My battery was about 65% also when I did the flash. I have done it at this percentage before when I flashed the New Zealand Telcom ROM trying to achieve the froyo update/spoof. All worked fine.

Thanks for your time btw.

On another note, what would Samsung service centre charge for a replacement handset?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gohst_oc:
@Insti75:

Does your phone look like this:

http://www.byemobile.de/bigimages/Samsung/Vibrant T959 Galaxy S/1.jpg

Or like this:

http://static.letsbuyit.com/filer/i...splay-android-2-1-metallic-blac-24684981.jpeg

Or is it like this one:

http://androidandme.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/galaxy-s-captivate.jpg

Because the firmware of the captivate and vibrant are rellay different from the one of the i9000 because of the different button layout and a few other things.

I think you choosed the wrong firmware (but I'm absolutly not sure ATM because I don't know all the versions oft the Galaxy Series).

Because the Galaxy S i9000t looks really like a normal Galaxy S I9000, so not a Captivate.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebazman:
why is it when someone thinks theyve fooked their galaxy they threaten to go and get an iphone boo hoo:rolleyes:

the reason im saying is because i was one of the ones that flashed the infamous jpc before we knew about the imei problem

so i have got a galaxy ipod now cant call or text but can go on internet, **** happens , its a gamble flashing so dont moan about it when it ****s up , its no one else fault.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Insti75:
i9000t looks like an i9000

i9000t does look like an i9000 except it has UMTS 850, like the AT&T Captivate...

Sorry I believed they had the same internals, etc, but now I can see a few more keys... What are the download mode/rec mode key maps for the Captivate in that case?

Also, if this is the case, there is a firm chance the USB jig will work, because it forces download mode anyway, regardless of key maps (if they have any effect anyway)

Just hazzarding a guess.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Insti75:
Flashing the captivate ROM cannot have caused the black screen. There are currently 3 forum members including myself with the same issue (I'm guessing all different models are among this list)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bjornj:
Galaxy s bricked and no download mode

Hi to all who can help me,

I bought my galaxy S 2 months ago in belgium.

My SGS is rooted and i wanted to change my home screen with SGS tools and then i got the brick that my phone stucks at the "galaxy s gt i-9000" screen.

1) I can't put it into dl mode, i tried everything:

-3 btn way ( all the possible ways, pwr+hme+ vol up, pwr+hme+vol down, get out the battery and then try it, plug into usb)

-adb.exe doesn't recognise my sgs

2) when i could get into dl mode what do i have to do to save my phone and all the docs and calendar on it? or isn't this possible

3) How do i unbrick my phone?

thanks!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gohst_oc:
Maybe, but in your case, it's the wrong Firmware that you choosed (different key mapping and other things).

They have different bootimages I think. The kernel has it's differences too.

But from the others, there aren't enough usable infos to tell you more.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] a7ad67:
I have the same problem black screen i have the 1900m bell Canada and i flash the Vibrant T959 USA firmware and i try to flash again to stock but sadly there were no download mode so i try to go to the recovery mode by room manager and then i reboot the phone and it dies black screen i hope the homemade jig will be useful
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] steje:
Hello,

first sorry my english ist very bad.

I have the same problem a few days ago.

I made it so.

1. download and install Android-SDK (search with google)

2. plugin your Mobile USB

3. Windows CMD box, goto Android-SDK/tools/

4. Type : adb reboot download

Result: Mobile reboot new in Downloadmode....!

Flash to JPU or JPX or better to JPY !

Perhaps that help you !

Greetings

Jens
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iammodo:
selling yet?

Anyway jig might sort as can put an os to the phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peachpuff:
Have you tried making the download jig with 300k ohm resistors?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -shift-:
this is a stupid question, but i couldn't find an answer anywhere.

when i boot up my evo, my setcpu widget shows that it's running on 998 mhz. however, i'm running profiles, which should make it run on 1152 mhz. now, when i tap on it, go into the setcpu app, go into profiles, and go back to the main tab, it corrects itself and shows 1152.

i've had to do this every time i boot. what am i missing??
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wfrandy:
Do you have "set on boot" box checked on the main tab of setcpu?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -shift-:
/facepalm

i thought that applied only to the main tab settings and not profiles. thanks!!
[Vibrant General] smolomiami:
Hi I just want to ask if any of u make to skype work ? i download the version for version wireless bat not success thanx for help
[Vibrant General] psychoace:
Won't work cause the Verizon version uses Verizon own voice connection to handle the call. Also the app dials a specific Verizon number when you make a call. So it will never work on anything but Verizon phones
[Vibrant General] dowwin:
I don't know for verizon, I d/l

fring and it worked. Unfortunately I have Tmobile so I don't have front cam.
[Vibrant General] smolomiami:
i just download other version for g1 but thee is no way t make calls i should keep still my nokia n900 for the skype calls
[Vibrant General] psychoace:
Fring is now banned from using Skypes services.
[Vibrant General] smolomiami:
this is really incredible android platform with 100,000 app and they don't have skype it's frustrating if you want skype there is only one device witch work perfect with clear voice calls that's nokia n900 is great device but no app market so now i need to switch sim card like stupid all the time because i use skype a lot
[Vibrant General] yvyv:
Ok, skype lovers I could confirm 100% working in my Vibrant..

Enjoy..
[Vibrant General] psychoace:
That app doesn't allow phone calls in the USA be it skype to skype or landline to skype.
[Vibrant General] yvyv:
To call international from the USA it works, Thats the only way I use it since I have an unlimited minute plan, I have never try domestic calls..

Thanks
[Vibrant General] mveksler:
How to you load that app to phone?